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Combating the Hydra: Violence and Resistance in the Habsburg Empire, 1500-1900

Combating the Hydra: Violence and Resistance in the Habsburg Empire, 1500-1900

Steiner, Stephan

Paperback

Series: Central European Studies

Austrian & Hungarian HistoryHistoriography

ISBN10: 1612498051
ISBN13: 9781612498058
Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr
Published: Feb 15 2023
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Combating the Hydra explores structural as well as occasion-specific state violence committed by the early modern Habsburg Empire. The book depicts and analyzes attacks on marginalized people maladjusted of all sorts, women of ill repute, heretic Protestants, and Gypsies. Previously uncharted archival records reveal the use of arbitrary imprisonment, coerced labor, and deportation. The case studies presented provide insights into the origins of modern state power from varied techniques of population control, but are also an investigation of resistance against oppression, persecution, and life-threatening assaults. The spectrum of fights against debasement is a touching attestation of the humanity of the outcasts; they range from mental and emotional perseverance to counterviolence. A conversation with the eminent historian Carlo Ginzburg concludes the collection by asking about the importance of memorizing horrors of the past.

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